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Match Point

Definition: Match Point

Match Point

Noun

1. The final point needed to win a match (especially in tennis).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Match Point

Specialty definitions using "match point": assistant camera operatorOPTICAL-EFFECTS LAYOUT PERSON, optical-effects-line-up personsudden death game, sudden death match. (references)

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Modern Usage: Match Point

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Match Point (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Match Point

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  match point

16

  match match point

12

  match point tennis

4

  match point volleyball

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Match Point

Language Translations for "match point"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, full stop, globule, installation, leak, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot, touch). (various references)

   

French

  

balle de match. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

マゼラン雲 (mac, machismo, Macintosh, Madagascar, madam killer, madame, Magellanic Clouds, maggeoli, mash, mashed potato, masochism, masochist, mass, massage, massive attack, mat, matador, match, match play, match pomp, matching, material, maternity dress, -matic, matinee, Matterhorn, McCarthy, McCarthyism, McCulloch, muckraker, mug, mushroom, mux). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

マッチポイント . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchmay ointpay

   

Romanian

  

punct decisiv. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

очко (match-point, mesh, pip, point, pontoon). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

meč poen. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

punto de match. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

matchboll. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Match Point

Misspellings

"Match Point" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: matchpoint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Match Point

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-m-n-o-p-t-t"

-2 letters: champion, pitchman.

-3 letters: antipot, aphonic, aphotic, apomict, campion, caption, catmint, maintop, manihot, paction, phantom, potamic, ptomain, taction, tampion, timpano.

-4 letters: action, anomic, atomic, atonic, atopic, camion, canthi, cation, catnip, chiton, chopin, haptic, hatpin, impact, intact, manioc, manito, mantic, mattin, octant, optima, painch, phatic, phonic, photic, pitman, potman, ptotic, tampon, tipcat, titman, tomcat.

-5 letters: actin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-m-n-o-p-t-t"
 

+4 letters: anthropometric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Match Point


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 74 63 68      50 6F 69 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01010000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#105 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0074 0063 0068      0050 006F 0069 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476786697425081758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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